RON GALELLA – SMASH HIS CAMERA
2011-04-04Ron Galella is an American photographer, known as a pioneer paparazzo. Dubbed “Paparazzo Extraordinaire” by Newsweek and “the Godfather of the U.S. paparazzi culture” by Time Magazine and Vanity Fair, he is regarded as the most controversial celebrity photographer in the world.
Galella’s photographs can be seen in hundreds of publications including Time, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Vanity Fair, People, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, the New York Times and Life. He is widely-known for his obsessive treatment of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the subsequent legal battles associated with it. The New York Post called them “the most co-dependent celeb-paparazzi relationships ever.” In the famous 1972 free-speech trial “Galella v. Onassis”, she obtained a restraining order to keep Galella 150 feet away from her and her children.
Galella is the subject of a 2010 documentary film directed by Leon Gast entitled Smash His Camera.
Opposite – Jackie Onassis, Oct 7, 1971, Madison Avenue
Exhibition runs from April 9th to June 5th, 2011
Young Gallery Knokke
811 Zeedijk
8300 Knokke
Belgium
